LEADERSHIP AND BEHAVIORAL ORGANIZATION

Leadership and Behavioral Organization as Steve Job's steps down from Apple

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Brief Overview3

Current Issues3

Identify the Problems4

Literature Review4

Identification of Sources and Uses of Information4

Analysis and Causes of Problem5

Leadership and Organizational Behavior Concepts Present in Problem5

Possible Solutions5

Eliminate Conflict Minerals from the Supply Stream5

Design for Repairability6

Leadership and Behavioral Organization as Steve Job's steps down from Apple

Introduction

Brief Overview

Apple is a California based company, which was established in 1976 and was formerly known as Apple computer, Inc. Apple operates under the applications software sector/ industry and is therefore registered under the New York's stock exchange. Therefore the company has too main competitors which are Microsoft and Google although they are operated in different ways. Moreover, the main activities of Apple inc is to design, produce and market mobile devices, portable digital music/ video players, personal computers and therefore sells a range of related software and network solutions, with 46600 employees as at 2010 (Gilbert, 2010).

Apple sells reaches its products to worldwide customers who are willing to obtain Apple's products through a wide range of sources such as, online stores, third-party wholesalers, retail outlets, resellers and different value added resellers. However, in addition to the mentioned general activities of Apple, Apple sells a great deal of peripherals through its online and retail stores.

Current Issues

The company's shares dropped $6.43, or 1.7 per cent, to $369.75 on the NASDAQ index after earlier declining as low as $365 at the start of trading on Wall Street, knocking between $7 billion and $10billion of the company's value.

However shares later rallied and were down less than 2 per cent, showing more resilience than when the departure was initially announced late yesterday. Steve Jobs's decision to step down from Apple also erased as much as $52 billion from the benchmark gauge for US stocks, futures trading.

Identify the ...